Tom,
I was just looking for a way to keep different postmasters out of each
others way. If you think the DBA can do it great or if the DBA changes
port have him/her fix the locations.
Jim
> "Jim Buttafuoco" <jim@buttafuoco.net> writes:
> > As for the actual data file location, I believe under each loc oid
we
> > would have pg_port #/DB OID/pg_class OID might be the way to go.
>
> Introducing pg_port into the paths would be a bad idea, since it
> would prevent restarting a postmaster with a different port number.
> I think if a DBA is running multiple postmasters, it's up to him
> to avoid pointing more than one of them at the same "location"
> directory. (Maybe we could enforce that with lock files? Not
> sure it's worth the trouble though.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
